Friday, December 18, 2009

The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)

The MIT and Harvard researchers try to simulate a Visual System with GPU. They demonstrate a better way for computers to ‘see’ through encoding the Visual System physiology (Brain area V1,V2,V4) as black box encoded numerically.

It remember me my engineer courses on Visual System physiology...

So the GPU "Eye" is bigger than ours... and composed of 16 GPU...

A video explaning the biological stuff conversion to machine engineering...